Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, the President went on to propose a long schedule of federal assistance for the U.S. economy. He wanted a "soil bank" for agriculture, in which farmers would be paid for taking some of their land out of certain fields of production. (This week he sent a nine-point package farm program to the Congress, featuring a soil bank that could put $1 billion into farmers' pockets by 1957.) He wanted Congress to look into "an experimental program of flood damage indemnities." He hoped to divert federal funds to help depressed areas, which he called "pockets of chronic unemployment...
...throne to lead his own political party, won all 91 seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your radio is insulting us and encouraging subversion on our soil." And when Red China's Chou En-Lai sent a formal invitation to visit Peking, Norodom shrugged: "I have enough worry on my hands...
...hope to steal the ball by coming forward with a pro gram to put more money in the farmers' pockets. The chances are against a return to high (90% of parity), rigid price sup ports as a general policy; the chances are excellent for the establishment of a soil-bank plan, under which farmers would get cash benefits for switching land from surplus to soil-building crops...
...farmer was more a political than economic problem. But in an election year no one expected the problem to become smaller or the expense of supporting crops any less. To trim the mounting surpluses, Secretary Benson was mulling over a sheaf of plans for more crop sales abroad, a soil conservation plan that would take land out of production. But a conservation plan would cost an estimated $500 million, and the U.S. already has $7.5 billion tied up in crops. Moreover, the new plans called for more and more restrictions on how farmers tilled their land. Thus, it looked...
Thus Oliver Goldsmith saw the inhabitants of 18th century London. Their armies under Marlborough had defeated Europe's greatest power on its own soil; they had overthrown the old religion and prospered. The revolution of 1688, which guaranteed a Protestant monarch, seemed to have fixed everything. But the bloody slogans of church-state and King-Commons still echoed in English ears, and men who no longer wished to hear a bugle or a Mass would listen to Handel, conversation, politics and smut. Often they listened to the Very Rev. Jonathan Swift, Anglican dean of St. Patrick...